Intentions to Marry, 1915 Mauriceville to Wellington

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840460, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

1915 is bound in six volumes (a to f) with continuous page numbers. Each volume contains a different set of districts, going from north to south.

1915d contains pages 1501-1972, covering districts from Mauriceville to Wellington

Page 1943

District of Wellington Quarter ending 31 December 1915 Registrar J. H. Althorpe

Date of Notice

Names and Surnames of Parties

BDM Match

Condition

Calling or Profession

Age

Dwelling Place

Length of Residence

Marriage Place

Folio

Consent

Date of Certificate

Officiating Minister

1206

9 December 1915

William Young
Annie Ellen Isabel Wylie

William Young
Annie Ellen Isabel Wylie
💍 1915/5108

Bachelor
Spinster

Carpenter

27
28

Wellington
Wellington

7 months
10 months

St. Andrew's Manse, Hill Street, Wellington

7450

9 December 1915

Rev. J. S. Smith

No	1206
Date of Notice	9 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Young	Annie Ellen Isabel Wylie
	💍 1915/5108
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Carpenter
Age	27	28
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	7 months	10 months
Marriage Place	St. Andrew's Manse, Hill Street, Wellington
Folio	7450
Consent
Date of Certificate	9 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. J. S. Smith

1207

10 December 1915

William Francis Henry Smith
Bertha May Vincent

William Francis Henry Smith
Bertha May Vincent
💍 1915/5110

Bachelor
Spinster

Labourer

24
27

Wellington
Wellington

9 months
5 years

Methodist Parsonage, Hanhey Street, Wellington

7451

10 December 1915

Rev. G. H. Smith

No	1207
Date of Notice	10 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	William Francis Henry Smith	Bertha May Vincent
	💍 1915/5110
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Labourer
Age	24	27
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	9 months	5 years
Marriage Place	Methodist Parsonage, Hanhey Street, Wellington
Folio	7451
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. G. H. Smith

1208

10 December 1915

Cuthbert Owen Carr
Rita Madeline Bentley

Cuthbert Owen Carr
Rita Madeline Bentley
💍 1915/5111

Bachelor
Spinster

Soldier

29
27

Rangiotu
Wellington

5 days
27 years

St. Peter's Church, Wellington

7452

10 December 1915

Rev. H. Watson

No	1208
Date of Notice	10 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Cuthbert Owen Carr	Rita Madeline Bentley
	💍 1915/5111
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Soldier
Age	29	27
Dwelling Place	Rangiotu	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 days	27 years
Marriage Place	St. Peter's Church, Wellington
Folio	7452
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. H. Watson

1209

10 December 1915

John Henry Goldsworthy
Ellen Dunne

John Henry Goldsworthy
Ellen Dunne
💍 1915/5112

Bachelor
Spinster

Mercantile bread carrier

30
22

Wellington
Wellington

5 years
2 years

St. Joseph's Church, Wellington

7453

10 December 1915

Rev. D. Hurley

No	1209
Date of Notice	10 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	John Henry Goldsworthy	Ellen Dunne
	💍 1915/5112
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mercantile bread carrier
Age	30	22
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Wellington
Length of Residence	5 years	2 years
Marriage Place	St. Joseph's Church, Wellington
Folio	7453
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. D. Hurley

1210

10 December 1915

Leslie Miles
May Daphne Cathrine Stewart

Leslie Miles
Mary Daphne Cathrine Stewart
💍 1915/5113

Bachelor
Spinster

Mercantile clerk

24
23

Wellington
Dunedin

Life
Life

St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington

7454

10 December 1915

Rev. A. M. Johnson

No	1210
Date of Notice	10 December 1915
	Groom	Bride
Names of Parties	Leslie Miles	May Daphne Cathrine Stewart
BDM Match (98%)	Leslie Miles	Mary Daphne Cathrine Stewart
	💍 1915/5113
Condition	Bachelor	Spinster
Profession	Mercantile clerk
Age	24	23
Dwelling Place	Wellington	Dunedin
Length of Residence	Life	Life
Marriage Place	St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington
Folio	7454
Consent
Date of Certificate	10 December 1915
Officiating Minister	Rev. A. M. Johnson

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What is an Intention to Marry?

The 1854 Marriage Act required Pakeha settlers (and later Maori) to register their intention to marry from 1855. The resulting Notices of intention to marry were sent by the district registrars to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages and bound into large volumes, each containing a year of notices. These registers were eventually deposited with Archives New Zealand.

What information does an ItM record?

A typical Intention to Marry notice records:

the bride and groom's full names
occupation of the groom (and sometimes the bride)
their ages
district where the marriage would take place
how long they had resided in the district
Where the marriage would take place (eg, a specific church)
Who would officiate the marriage (eg, a minister)
The date of the notice and also a date when the certificate was issued. Marriages had to take place within 3 months, and usually occurred within a week or so of the certificate date.
If one of the parties was under 21, a parent who consented to their marriage was usually specified

These details can provide clues for genealogical and historical research. Knowing the date and district makes it easier to look for wedding notices in Papers Past, and the amount of time that the parties had resided in a district can offer clues to whether a person was born in NZ, or when they immigrated.

However, finding individual records in the Intentions to Marry registers was typically a slow and manual process, usually requiring an in-person visit to Archives NZ's Wellington office (during limited opening hours) and using a handwritten card catalogue index to look up individual names.

Eight years of the registers had been digitised by Archives NZ prior to 2024, but even these digital versions required the use of a manual index and usually examining several pages to locate specific records.

What is the Intentions to Marry Project?

This project aims to transcribe the New Zealand Intentions to Marry registers (from 1855 to 1925) with the assistance of new technology (AI), making the records freely available and easily searchable.

The ITM records have also been cross-referenced with the registered marriages at DIA Births, Deaths and Marriages, where possible (a small fraction of the recorded intentions to marry did not become a registered marriage).

Currently we have almost all records between 1855 and 1908. More registers are being added almost every week.

The project is led by Luke Howison, a web developer who made the free genealogical research search tool NZ Ancestor Search Helper and Archway-style Collections Search. There are also some wonderful volunteers assisting with digitising the registers.

Can I volunteer to help?

Yes, you can! You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

I am also looking for Wellington-based volunteers to help me digitise more years of the registers. I can provide lighting equipment and a 'clicker' (to trigger your phone's camera).

How is the transcription done?

There are several steps to digitising and transcribing the records:

Digitising the registers (taking clean, straight, high-quality photos)
Processing the digitised pages by straightening, cropping and sharpening the images
Transcribing each page with a combination of AI tools
Matching each ITM with a registered marriage when possible
Human verification of the transcribed information

The main LLM (AI) used are the Google Gemini Pro and Flash models, which have excellent 'Vision' capabilities, and a generous free tier.

Archives NZ has released the register years they have digitised (1865-69, 1872, 1874 and 1880) under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

The Intention to Marry registers (up to 1925) are more than 100 years old, so their Crown Copyright has expired, putting them in the public domain. This also applies to any 'mechanical reproductions' (eg, pictures or photocopies) of their content without substantial alteration.

The transcribed records on this website are released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, while giving credit to the creator (NZ Intentions to Marry Project).